What is meant by the half life of a radioactive

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2022-05-14

What is meant by the half life of a radioactive nuclide?

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The half life of radioactive nuclides is defined as the time in which half of the original number of radioactive atoms has decayed.
Example:
Imagine you start with 100 atoms of nuclide X.
X decays to nuclide Y with a half life of 10 days.
After 10 days 50 atoms of X are left, the other 50 have decayed to Y. After 20 days (2 half lifes) only 25 atoms of X are left etc.

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